312 PEKDICIN^E. 



creamy-yellow, and paler and somewhat olive-brown at the tip ; 

 primaries pale brown ; outer tail-feathers rich chesnut-brown, 

 with a dusky-brown terminal band, pale tipped ; beneath, the 

 chin and throat are whitish with small dark-brown spots, forming 

 a triangular mark ; the rest of the lower plumage ochreous- 

 white or creamy, most pronounced on the breast, and with 

 numerous minute cross-bars of brown, somewhat broader on the 

 breast and sides of the neck, where it mingles with the upper 

 plumage ; lower tail -co verts ferruginous. 



The Grey Partridge is common throughout the district, breed- 

 ing during March, April, and May. Some few birds lay again 

 later in the season, but these are probably birds that have had 

 their previous eggs taken or destroyed. 



The eggs are generally six in number, occasionally seven, but 

 I have taken five fully incubated ; they are white, more or less 

 tinted with cafe-au-lait, and measure 1*3 inches in length by 

 1-03 in breadth. 



GENUS, Perdicula, Hodgs. 



Bill short, thick, well curved ; tarsus with a blunt tubercle ; 

 wings firm, much rounded, outer web of most of the primaries 

 sinuated and moderately firm ; tail short, of twelve feathers ; of 

 very small size ; sexes differ in plumage. 



Perdicula asiatica, Lath. 



826. P. cambayensis, Lath. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, 



p. 581 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 6 ; 



Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 422 ; Game Birds of India, 



Vol. II, p. 109 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, 



p. 131. 



THE JUNGLE BUSH QUAIL. 



Length, 6'3 to 72 ; expanse, 10 to 1M ; wing, 3'0 to 3'5 ; 

 tail, 1-5 to 178 ; tarsus, 0'94 to TO ; bill from gape, 0'5 to 0'6 ; 

 weight, 2 oz. to 2'85 oz. 



Bill bluish-black ; irides light to reddish-brown ; legs and feet 

 light waxy-orange to yellowish-red. 



Male, above rich dark reddish-brown, mottled with dull rufous, 

 a long yellowish or rufous-white supercilium, narrowly edged with 

 black, and an indistinct pale line from the gape ; between this 

 and the supercilium rufous-brown ; the shafts of the feathers of 

 the back of the neck and the back white ; many of the feathers 

 of the back with black markings ; and the scapulars and wing- 

 coverts richly marked on their inner webs with pale creamy- white 

 and black ; primaries red-brown, with fulvous or tawny spots or 

 bars ; tail with a few black bars ; beneath, the chin is rich, 

 chesnut, and the rest of the under surface white, tinged with 

 rufescent on the lower abdomen, flanks, vent, and lower tail- 

 coverts, with numerous cross bars of black, small on the throat 

 and sides of the neck, increasing in size on the breast and abdo- 

 men, and disappearing towards the vent. 



